The Philippines: Smoke in Manila

Harry S. Stonehill resembles the kind of character that the
late Sydney Greenstreet used to play in all the old Warner Bros,
beaded-curtain thrillers. A blunt, beefy Chicagoan who changed
his name from Steinberg in 1942 because "German names at
that time weren't very popular," Stonehill built up a $50 million
business empire in the Philippines. "Every man has his price,"
said Harry Stonehill, and in the Philippines after World War II he
found that the going rate was fairly cheap; at one time he boasted:
"I am the government."